Extreme Quotes

The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies.

My mom had started to go to work when I was nine or ten, so I was aware of women trying to find their own identities by working. But I was still influenced by men to such an extreme. I wanted to play their games and wanted to compete in their world and be like them.

For me it's even more interesting, because my character comes out of the shadow. It's a chance to really act emotionally, because the situation is an extreme one.

My childhood was extreme.

Hockey is the original extreme sport.

While I will always have the utmost respect for the superhuman out-of-bounds freestyle and extreme stunts that seem to continually progress beyond our imaginable limits, my highest appreciation goes out to the simple rider who's out there just for the experience.

I was a new devotee of Eastern mysticism and even though I did not join that particular group, I could well have done. They seemed a bit extreme but I regarded myself as not quite ready.

I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess.

I love extreme sports, I like snowboarding and motorcross and rollerblading and hockey.

Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme love breeds satiety, and so extreme hatred; and too violent rigor tempts chastity, as does too much license.

Extreme Makeover... they help people that are uncomfortable in their own skin. They really change lives.

I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another.

Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.

My dad thinks Obama is a socialist and all these extreme views.

All of my activities are so pedestrian. The extreme sport I play is ping pong. And we play it hard. If any of you suckers want to step up to the table, be ready.

The dirty little secret is that I grew up in a household where there were no carbohydrates allowed, ever. No cookies, no bread, no potatoes, no rice. My mother was very extreme in terms of what she served. Since I left home more than 40 years ago, I've been making it right for myself.

Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.

Yes, our tree has an interesting shape. The center branches reflect the shape of the zero curve. When extreme parts of the tree are reached the branching pattern changes to accommodate the mean reversion.

I didn't see my character, Core, as a cannibal but as somebody who is extremely passionate and who doesn't have any conscience. She takes her passion to its complete extreme.

I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

I can say I won a Senior British Open at Turnberry. I think that's the best thing about it, the whole week, was playing this course. It's a challenging, very tough course, under extreme weather. But you know, it's nice to win any event.

The most extreme individuals and factions in Islamic countries are now more motivated than ever to kill Americans, and the number of potential terrorists has greatly expanded.

The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.

Texas has arguably the most extreme separation between the well off and everyday people in the United States.

That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up.

There have been some very extreme hecklers in audiences whose bile was so hateful and so meant that it would be a bit frightening to think that all I'm doing is jokes and yet someone hates me that much.

Extreme nationalism and Bolshevism have broken up the old world, a new world is in the making. It is literally true that old things are passing away; all things may become new, granted we have wise, unselfish, and determined guides.

Artistic ambition is important. And it seems it would be a great time to do some theatre, like a new extreme.

The science linking the increased frequency and severity of extreme weather to the climate crisis has matured tremendously in the last couple of years.

You can take that 'I'm an artiste' stuff to the wrong extreme, too.